Herman mengel



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To ALL WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN;

Be it known that I, HERMAN MENGEL, of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Instruments for Laying Out on Cloth Measures for Garments `to be Cut; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct `description of the same, sufficient to i enable others skilled'in the art to which my invention appertains to fully understand and use the same,.refer ence being had to the accompanying-drawings, which'make part of tliis specification, and in which.-

Figure 1 represents the instrument -for pantaloons, and the manner of laying the measure for the latter out on cloth.

Figures 2 and 3 represent the instruments for laying out the measure of half the front and half the back, respectively, of eithercoat'or vest.'v l

Figure 4 is an illustration ofthe principle of my method of laying out measures of garments onl cloth; and

Figure illustrates the method of laying out the height of the shoulders by means of the'instruments shown in gs. 2 and 3. p i i Like letters of reference'indicate like parts in the several gures.

All the diii'erent instruments patented, until nosv, for the purpose of laying out on cloth measures for garments to be cut can .only be used andadjusted for the regular sizesof clothing, as now used in the manufacture of what is called trendy-made clothing, and which sizes are calculated to t any well-shaped and Wellproportioned person; but these instruments cannot be used for misshaped or deformed persons.

My instruments are constructed according to Iscientific principles, and by means of them I can lit persons, of any shape, no matter how deformed they may be, and am enabled'to lay out on cloth the measures for garments for such persons rapidly, and -in a manner to positively necessitate a good tit.

' A'tailor has often great trouble with his customer, who may be a .well-proportioned man, but may have high vor low shoulders, or a prominenter no breast at all, and often indsl'that the coat or vest is too high under the arms or across the shoulders, or bags in front or on the back, when the tailor has faithfully laid out the l measure he tookfrom the person, but could not make allowance for the highor low shoulders, ttc. y

My instruments will, in laying out on clothmeasures, indicate any variation from the regular proportion of the man, and thus enable me to it any shaped or misshaped one. I

A, in iig. 1, represents the main rod or piece, which is slotted from nearthe top to about three-fourths of its length, which slot serves as a rvayto pins b c d, which. hold the cross-pieces B, B', C, andvD., The upper crossh piece consists of two parts, B B', the former lof which has a short slot near its inner end,'while the latter is lsecurely fastened to the pin 5,' so'that both pieces B B can be slid up and down on the piece A, and the piece- B can, besides, be adjusted laterally. Thes their upper edges, while the piece B has a smaller scale on its lower, edge, near the inner end.

The second cross-piece, C, is provided with a slot,` and thus made adjustable, vertically and laterally, to the piece A, on the pin c. It is provided with several scaleson its top and on its bottom edge. l

The third 'cross-piece, D, is similar to the cross-piece C, only it is not so long as the same. A fourthcross-piece, E, smaller but similar to the pieces O D, is adjustable only laterally on the pin e, which latter is fastened on .the lower end of the piece A.

The pieces B B indicate and are moved up to the degree of the scale on piece A, which indicates the meas; nre from the sole of the foot to the waist, the numbers on scale A'r'unning from the bottom t'o the top. B B indicate the measure around the waist, and B is used for laying out the fore part and B the hind part of pauta;

' loons, als indicated in the drawings.

'l Scale G ismoved to the degree on A, indicating thc measure from the sole of the foot to the crotch, what ever it may be, and adjusted laterally to the thigh-measure. v

` Scale D is moved to the degree on A, indicating the measure from the sole of the foot to the knee, and adjusted laterally to the measure around thesame.

e cross-pieces are provided with scales, of corresponding length, on-

In laying out a pair offpantaloons on cloth, the regular measures are first taken, and then the instrument is laid at on the'same, and scales B B adjusted on scale A to the degree indicating themeasnre from the stole of theoot to the waist. lThe measure around the waist isthen laid out in the following manner:

Supposing the measure to be32, and the fore part of the pantaloons'being to lay out, the figure 32 on scale. B indicates they starting-point from which thejfront line is drawn. The small scale ou B indicates the seatmeasure, and, by making the number of degrees of this seat-measure on this small scale agree with the edge of piece A, `the tightness of the pantaloons on the hips is secured.

The thigh-measure is laid o' on the cloth, by means of the piece C, in the following manner:

On the' scale fare numbers, indicating the thigh-measure, and the'piece C is moved laterally, until the number indicating the measure is even with the left edge of the piece A. On scale g arenumbers, indicating l the measure around the seat, and the line on the Icloth passes through Va point where the number of the real measure ison the scale, h, onthe scale, beingthe starting-point always 'on the other side.

On piece D, scale z' is numbered according tothe knee-measure, 7 being the starting-point ou one side, and

the number on scale z', corresponding with the measure, being the point through which vthe line passes on the opposite side, the height of the knee being gained by moving the piece D up to the number on A indicating it.

The piece E gives the measure around the ankle and foot, and operates similarly. The pieces C D E each have asmall'scale, lc, which serves to make .the lower parts of the pants to correspond withthe upper ones, 0,1, rather, enables the cutter to give the garment the proper shape. The scale c on piece C is properly calculated, and the scales lcon pieces D anclE are moved'tocorrespond with that on piece C, so that, whatever position the-scale Ic may have'to` take when tlie measure is laid oii on scale f, the scales k `on pieces D and E are moved to the same position in relation to piece A, which determnesthe fixed points on theleft ends of -the pieces D and E. Y y

The hind part of the pantaloons islaid out in a similar manner, the piece B7 coming in play instead ofthe .piece B.

In figs. 2and'3, my improvements in measures for coats, vests, and other upper garments, are shown. The instruments are substantially the sameras those 'shown in `my patent, dated January 22, 1867, but in the upper portion of theinstruments are slots Z, which serve as ways for buttons m, to which are rigidly secured pieces n.

These pieces Il/serve to indicate the width of the back, andheght of the shoulder, in laying out garments.

Having `thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire'to secure by Letters Patent, is- In combination with an instrument having laterally and vertically-adjustable'scales B B C D E, the scales n, verti cally adjustable in the instrument, forlaying out, on cloth` or other fabric, measures for upper garments, operating substantially as described. l

To the" above I have signed rny name, tbissixteenth day of April, 1868.4

i HERMAN MENGEL.

Witnesses: i

JACOB F. Hennig, :DANIEL ylFLutrsooK. 

